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"Bulldog Drummond and the Great Coca-Cola Myster" painting by Richard Merkin.

Signature on "Bulldog Drummond and the Great Coca-Cola Mystery" painting by Richard Merkin.

Frame on "Bulldog Drummond and the Great Coca-Cola Mystery" painting by Richard Merkin.

Finch label verso on "Bulldog Drummond and the Great Coca-Cola Mystery" painting by Richard Merkin.

Obelisk Gallery label verso on "Bulldog Drummond and the Great Coca-Cola Mystery" painting by Richard Merkin.

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Verso of "Bulldog Drummond and the Great Coca-Cola Mystery" painting by Richard Merkin.

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I was brought up on comics, baseball, movie serials, pornography, gossip, innuendo, rumor and shadows and that was what I made my first pictures of....

-Richard Merkin in letter to Jay Caldwell about Bulldog Drummond and the Great Coca-Cola Mystery.

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Catalog from 1969 exhibition at the Hayden Gallery, MIT of Merkin's exhibition "On Art and Perfume or Did Mondrian Use Masking Tape?"

"Merkin's World and Welcome To It" by Kevin Haynes, cover story of Syracuse University March 1993 magazine.

Palm Beach Times 1999 article "Merkin the Magician" by Bruce Helander.

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Bulldog Drummond and the Great Coca-Cola Mystery 1965

Richard Merkin (1938-2009)

Mixed media on paper

51" x 33"

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